INTERVIEW: 2000 Nobel Winner Shirakawa Unhappy with Media Reporting
Tokyo, Oct. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Hideki Shirakawa, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has complained about media reporting about the world-renowned prizes.
The Japanese media make "too much fuss," Shirakawa said in a recent interview with Jiji Press. "I don't want the Nobel prizes to receive special treatment," the 80-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba added.
There are many significant researches in the fields not covered by the Nobel prizes, said Shirakawa, who has developed electricity-conducting plastics now widely used in mobile phones and other digital devices.
While congratulating Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, on winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Shirakawa expressed his hopes that many vital researches in the fields outside the Nobel Prize categories will also be known widely.
The Japan Academy prizes cover a far wider range of fields, including humanities and social sciences, Shirakawa noted. "Whether a prize is given or not, basic research is significant in that it satisfies human curiosity," he emphasized.
The Japanese media make "too much fuss," Shirakawa said in a recent interview with Jiji Press. "I don't want the Nobel prizes to receive special treatment," the 80-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba added.
There are many significant researches in the fields not covered by the Nobel prizes, said Shirakawa, who has developed electricity-conducting plastics now widely used in mobile phones and other digital devices.
While congratulating Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, on winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Shirakawa expressed his hopes that many vital researches in the fields outside the Nobel Prize categories will also be known widely.
The Japan Academy prizes cover a far wider range of fields, including humanities and social sciences, Shirakawa noted. "Whether a prize is given or not, basic research is significant in that it satisfies human curiosity," he emphasized.
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